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While the Trump administration’s plan to make sweeping changes to the post office was seen as a cynical attempt to make it more difficult for states to allow voting by mail, the changes that slowed down delivery caused major problems for rural America.
We propose a modern-day Economic Justice Bill of Rights for all Wisconsinites.
A new report found that Center for Tech and Civic Life grants increased turnout in Democratic areas with no statistically significant impact on Republican areas.
Cancel culture — intolerance for ideas — is a cancer eating at the core of society and democracy. Barack Obama is a key ally in the fight against it. Andrew Cuomo and CPAC, well, not so much.
Company gave millions to group sponsoring Capitol insurrection, opposed pandemic measures, endangered employees’ health.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the post-Trump future for Wisconsin politics and the GOP.
The U.S. Capitol insurrection gave pause to some Republican contributors, but University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Eleanor Powell says she doesn’t expect that hesitancy to last. And that might not even be the worst of it.
Buried within the House of Representatives’ $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill—and the Senate’s Amendments to it — is a provision that gives federal workers $1,400 a week in paid leave until September 30 if they have a son or daughter in a school that still teaches virtually.
We must set aside the short-term need for profit and embrace the long-term need for survival.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan joined the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership to discuss current policy priorities, including evidence-based public policies with the American Idea Foundation and opportunity zones designed to provide incentives to invest in Census tracts where poverty is persistent.
For years now, Republican legislators, apparently aware that they can’t win elections if more people vote, have been doing their best to make it harder, not easier.
The Wisconsin state Legislature has such a rule. It keeps legislation clean and relational to the intent of the original bill.
While there are good arguments on both sides of the debate, I would abolish the filibuster. But that’s not going to happen, so it would be better to double down on it instead.
Former Brown County Clerk Sandy Juno, an election official for 22 years, said she had never seen anything like what she saw in Green Bay during the 2020 presidential election — and she hopes she’ll never see it again.
It is high time that all Americans, and educators especially, understand that African American history is American history. To think otherwise does a gross disservice to students and to our populace as a whole.
Batteries charged on coal power aren’t so good for the environment.
For the 15th consecutive year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is presenting its Openness in Government Awards.
More than any other team in Major League Baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers organization is dependent on attendance.
Police and fire fighter unions handed power over Fire & Police Commission disciplinary hearings.
The discrimination on national origin in the financial industry is actually not a new phenomenon but it is largely unknown due to the power of the financial industry over the mainstream US media.
While the Trump administration’s plan to make sweeping changes to the post office was seen as a cynical attempt to make it more difficult for states to allow voting by mail, the changes that slowed down delivery caused major problems for rural America.
We propose a modern-day Economic Justice Bill of Rights for all Wisconsinites.
A new report found that Center for Tech and Civic Life grants increased turnout in Democratic areas with no statistically significant impact on Republican areas.
Cancel culture — intolerance for ideas — is a cancer eating at the core of society and democracy. Barack Obama is a key ally in the fight against it. Andrew Cuomo and CPAC, well, not so much.
Company gave millions to group sponsoring Capitol insurrection, opposed pandemic measures, endangered employees’ health.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the post-Trump future for Wisconsin politics and the GOP.
The U.S. Capitol insurrection gave pause to some Republican contributors, but University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Eleanor Powell says she doesn’t expect that hesitancy to last. And that might not even be the worst of it.
Buried within the House of Representatives’ $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill—and the Senate’s Amendments to it — is a provision that gives federal workers $1,400 a week in paid leave until September 30 if they have a son or daughter in a school that still teaches virtually.
We must set aside the short-term need for profit and embrace the long-term need for survival.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan joined the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership to discuss current policy priorities, including evidence-based public policies with the American Idea Foundation and opportunity zones designed to provide incentives to invest in Census tracts where poverty is persistent.
For years now, Republican legislators, apparently aware that they can’t win elections if more people vote, have been doing their best to make it harder, not easier.
The Wisconsin state Legislature has such a rule. It keeps legislation clean and relational to the intent of the original bill.
While there are good arguments on both sides of the debate, I would abolish the filibuster. But that’s not going to happen, so it would be better to double down on it instead.
Former Brown County Clerk Sandy Juno, an election official for 22 years, said she had never seen anything like what she saw in Green Bay during the 2020 presidential election — and she hopes she’ll never see it again.
It is high time that all Americans, and educators especially, understand that African American history is American history. To think otherwise does a gross disservice to students and to our populace as a whole.
Batteries charged on coal power aren’t so good for the environment.
For the 15th consecutive year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is presenting its Openness in Government Awards.
More than any other team in Major League Baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers organization is dependent on attendance.
Police and fire fighter unions handed power over Fire & Police Commission disciplinary hearings.
The discrimination on national origin in the financial industry is actually not a new phenomenon but it is largely unknown due to the power of the financial industry over the mainstream US media.
